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• I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Anger, Men, Giving

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

  Samuel Johnson

  Bows, Opinion, Insult

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772”, p.196, Princeton University Press

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• The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

  William Shenstone

  Best Friend, Answers, Moments

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• A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.

  E. B. White

  Time, Writing, Men

  1975 Letter to Corona Macheiner, 11 Jun.

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• In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

  Anatole Broyard

  Writing, Play, People

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• LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder) I wrote to myself recently. Live in your joy today. Be authentic. Love yourself. First. Love others from your own abundance. Life Changes. Circumstances change. Sometimes you try to fit your old way of being into new circumstances rather than becoming new yourself. Embrace transformation as an opportunity. And keep on writing love letters to yourself.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Life Changing, Love You, Taken

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• The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

  Charles Lamb

  Purpose, Festivals, Red

  Charles Lamb (1841). “The Essays of Elia”

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• People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

  Tim Conway

  Knowing, People, Sitting

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• I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?'

  Matt Lauer

  Love You, Past, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. May 1994.

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• I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.

  Christopher Plummer

  Believe, Fans, Als

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• I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

  Pat Morita

  Four, Eras, Four Letter Words

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

  Nicholas Sparks

  New York, Typical, Agents

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• Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

  Ed Markey

  Important, Four, Anticipation

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• Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Knowing, Joy, Woods

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• Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Law, Effort, Needed

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

  Samuel McChord Crothers

  Writing, Tired, Poetry

  Samuel McChord Crothers (1920). “The Dame School of Experience, and Other Papers”

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• Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed

  Steve Albini

  Mistake, Labels, Band

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• Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

  Home, Special, Purpose

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• The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u.

  Anna Quindlen

  Spiritual, Writing, Technology

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• While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

  Richard Jewell

  Men, Innocent Man, Names

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• His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath.

  Duff Green

  Heart, Baths, Cold

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• This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

  Anthony Trollope

  Writing, Twenties, World

  Anthony Trollope (1859). “The Bertrams: A Novel”, p.313

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• In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

  Joanna Southcott

  Men, Telling The Truth, Danger

  Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”

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• My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.

  Joanna Southcott

  Faith, Strong, Answers

  Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”

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